Retail investors want access to the biggest private tech companies.

SpaceX. OpenAI. Anthropic. Stripe.

But what they often get isn’t direct access—it’s layered exposure through SPVs, intermediaries, and repackaged demand.

So the real question is: What companies are investors actually missing?

The answer is in the middle.

The “secret stallions”—companies doing real revenue, real growth, still under the radar.

@davemcclure discusses why the upside quietly lives outside the noise of the most crowded names.

Check out Dave's full Secondary 101 discussion on Trading Places EP34!